The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

cheese are o new dish.
TEE Temple Emanuel, in New York, has
m organ with 4, ,424 pipes.
OYSTERS on shell at o cent apiece, are
vended on trays in New York.
In India there are four female mission
aries to every million of women.
DIAMONDS are found in two Georgia coun
ties and gold in tiftysix counties.
A WELL 1900 feet deep is to be bored il
the City Of Mexico in search of oil.
ALL the railroads are looking sharp to
their bridges. It's good investment.
A NEwBuRG IN. W maiden chewed too
much gum and lost control of her jaw.
SALT is selling for fifty-one cents barrel
in Michigan, with the barrel thrown in.
The best modern siege guns cost s97, 900,
and it costs $.WO to shoot one of them only
once.
A PHYSICIAN sits at the bedside of EN-
peror William watching while the mon
arch sleeps.
BALTIMORE is now supplied with illumin-
atng gas at thirty-fve cents per one thou
sand cubic feet.
THE Beecher farm at Peekskill, now Of
fered for sale, is valued at s1OO,OOO. The
house cost $4,000.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
bill reducing legal fares from three cents
mile to two cents.
THE German Reichstag has adjourned
for the Easter holidays, and will resume
its sittings April 10.
GEO. W. CnILDs will present to the West
Point Military Academy life-size paint
ing of General Grant.
The State of Iowa has just built herself
nj nj hnc in ha
original appropriation.
A GERMAN entomologist declares that
spiders destroy more insect enemies than
do all insect-eatng birds.
The Empress Eugene is said to be con-
femplating tour through the United
States, travelling incognito.
DANvILLE, Va, has caught the boom.
She is building street railroads, water
works and laying off parks.
THE New York Legislature is asked to
pass bill making it a misdemeanor to
jump off the Brooklyn bridge.
A LAW has just been enacted in Con-
necticut prohibiting railway travel be-
tween 9 a. IN. and 3 p. m. on Sundays.
A MEETING of Hebrews held in Brooklyn
recently contributed s2,059 for the monu-
ment to the late Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher.
The Louisville Courier-7ournal thinks the
Gar of Russia would be happier man as
the agent of some durable clothes
wringer
Lulu WILLIAMS, child of eleven years,
is an applicant for divorce in an Omaha
court on the ground of cruelty and failure
to support.
A BILL which has passed the Connecticut
1.nUiSlatnra nrovi1ac fh haf ri do d hos
commenced fermentation shall be subject
to the license law.
IHE death rate in New York is now said
10 De dwlndled TO seven hundred week.
10 bury TINS number the city has one thou
sano uhdertaKers.
The Puritant rose, the latest production
OF the queen OF flowers, has compact
blossom, is of delicate creamy white, and
will last for days.
IHE latest advlces from the volcano of
Mauna Loa are that the flow of lava which
was recently upheaved from the mid-ocean
furnace had ceased
WRITER OF vigorous American prose
describes a school girl out in the cold
world ''as minnow among school Of
saw-toothed pickerel."
THE Chinese are said to manufacture an
AAi ~" o>eiohS
ana claim that the anasthetic property is
the juice OF the eye Of the frog.
OSCAR g. STRoUs, the newly-apponted
Minister to Turkey, is a native of Georgia.
He was born in Talbotton and resided
there until he was eleven years old.
JOHN WANNAMAKER, the Philadelphi
merchant, carries life insurance of $780,
600. J. b. Stetson, of the same CITY. has
$515,OO0, and Hamilton Disston stsOO, 900.
WHEN John Mackay travels by rail he is
always accompanied by telegraph opera
tor with a portable telegraph instrument
for sending dispatches in ease of necessity.
THE proprietor of a Broad street bucket
shop has been arrested and held for trial
in New York court, the evident intent
being to settle the legal status of his s.busi-
ness"
A GLASGOW merchant asked Queen Vic
toria to accept a jubilee gift of a cheese
weighing nve TONS and made from the
n,iiA VI Cow oahadiah cows, but she de-
ciineo'
hwoh hAo' the young emperor OF China,
VINO mas oeen deciared "o1 age" at sixteen,
mas assumed tne iuli reins OF government.
ms name signines continuation of
1lory'"
SEVERAL books OF county records in
iowa, whlch mad long been missing, were
recently lound IN davenport saloon,